Update: Today Google is in English. (Been so long, I am almost thinking, "What's that?")

Next, I go to the website given above and find that my location is given.

I don't know what happened. Maybe it's a confluence of the planets.

The only thing different from yesterday is that my newly downloaded virus checking program, Avast!, updated automatically this a.m. That was before I checked Google. I don't see how there could be a connection, however.

I'd been wondering all along if perhaps the problem was with Google itself, since I was getting other languages on only the main Google site and not on Google finance or news. But then, since FT ad server had ads in French for awhile, that hypothesis didn't fit. Also, since I wasn't getting location feedback yesterday when I checked the various sites that check for IP and address, something had to have changed on my computer itself--or maybe my ISP, who knows?

Anyhow, everything's all right now. Thanks, people.

Or, as we say in the Google crash language course, Merci beaucoup, gracias. ^